Trailer: Jack Black's The Brink Makes the Apocalypse Look Fun

HBO's new comedy looks a lot brighter than The Leftovers.

What's so funny about global annihilation? A lot, at least in HBO's new series The Brink, which follows the United States government as it wrangles with troubles close to home—a sexually adventurous secretary of state (Tim Robbins) and irascible foreign service officer (Jack Black)—and in Pakistan. The Daily Show's Aasif Mandvi also stops by to crack some witty one-liners. The new teaser above has all the irreverence of Veep, with the unimaginable stakes of House of Cards. Only question is, who's playing president? The Brink premieres on HBO June 21.

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